{"id":82635,"title":"The Forecasting Company: Foundation models for time series","tagline":"Easy and accurate forecasts for navigating an uncertain world","body":"**tl;dr:** The same core technology that led to the LLM explosion can be adapted to build accurate and easy to use time series models. We’re building the enterprise-grade, plug and play forecasting systems of tomorrow. [Talk to us](https://mailto:founders@theforecastingcompany.com) if you have forecasting and planning use-cases!\n\n\\\nHi everyone, we’re Geoff and Joachim. We’ve built ML and forecasting systems at Amazon, Google, Bloomberg LP, JP Morgan, and Sonos. We’re The Forecasting Company!\n\n### Problem 📉\n\n* Existing time-series forecasting solutions produce **unreliable predictions** with sometimes catastrophic results - they have a hard time handling activity spikes like Black Friday.\n* Developing and maintaining useful forecasting and planning models requires **large and costly teams** of data scientists and domain experts.\n* Data science teams are backlogged, leaving operators **waiting for months** before a use-case to be put into production.\n\n### Solution 📈\n\n* **An easy to use, flexible and accurate forecasting system. No training required!**\n* A **massive training dataset of time-stamped data** from many industries and domains (energy, transportation, etc.).\n* A forecasting model that can leverage **user-provided input variables** or our own **curated data streams**.\n\n### What we’re forecasting these days\n\n# Bacteria levels in the Seine 🦠 🏊‍♂️\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=82635\u0026key=user_uploads/1325636/a0b74e9b-3289-4b05-aa4d-78ea52ef10d0)\n\nOur forecasts show that swimmers lucked out today 🍀!\\\n(Data provided courtesy of the [Fluidion Open Data Initiative)](https://fluidion.com/open-data-initiative/2024-seine-water-quality)\n\n### Ask\n\n* If you have forecasting problems in-house, or know of someone who does, **please reach out - we’d love to help!**\n* **Try our sandbox model** on [www.theforecastingcompany.com](http://www.theforecastingcompany.com) and let us know what you think\\\n  [founders@theforecastingcompany.com](mailto:founders@theforecastingcompany.com)","slug":"LUp-the-forecasting-company-foundation-models-for-time-series","created_at":"2024-08-01T14:17:31.991Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T04:05:11.578Z","total_vote_count":68,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LUp-the-forecasting-company-foundation-models-for-time-series","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=82635\u0026key=user_uploads/1325636/a0b74e9b-3289-4b05-aa4d-78ea52ef10d0","company":{"id":29779,"name":"The Forecasting Company","slug":"the-forecasting-company","url":"https://www.theforecastingcompany.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/53275d8cc1a5e29fff729e2218b324e461af730f.png","batch":"Summer 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","B2B","Supply Chain","Enterprise Software","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29779"}}